Philosophical Method

Produktbeschreibung

Is philosophy a unique discipline, or are its methods more like those of other sciences than many philosophers think? Timothy Williamson explains clearly and concisely how contemporary philosophers think and work, and reflects on their powers and limitations. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1: Introduction
2: Starting from common sense
3: Disputing
4: Clarifying terms
5: Doing thought experiments
6: Comparing theories
7: Deducing
8: Using the history of philosophy
9: Using other fields
10: Model-building
11: Conclusion: the future of philosophy
References and Further Reading 

Autoreninfo

Timothy Williamson is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, and A. Whitney Griswold Visiting Professor at Yale University. Previously he was the Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh University. He has published books and articles on many branches of philosophy, some of which have been translated into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Hungarian, Serbian, Turkish, Chinese, Korean, and other languages. He frequently writes on philosophy in the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times blog The Stone, and newspapers in various countries.